The Athletic. The Athletic. Hello, I'm Matt Slater.

Welcome to the Business of Sport Podcast on the Athletic.

Just me this week, no Mark Chapman,

and in this week's episode our focus is on

QPR Queens Park Rangers who playing the championship English football

second tier now later in the pod will speak to Les Ferdinand

once one of the most feared strikers in the

Premier League a QPR legend played for England too but he's now the club's director of

football. He's going to tell us about their plans to invest in the training ground

and develop more young talent to

feed into the first team and to make their whole business model far more sustainable.

But before that we're going to hear from Rubin Nalalalingham, who's the vice chairman.

He's a big shareholder at QPR.

He's also a shareholder at LA FC and MLS, which is now

MLS's most valuable franchise.

So a significant player in football on both sides of the Atlantic.

As I mentioned, he's Malaysian, educated in London,

increasingly spending time here as well.

He came into QPR in 2011. He was part of the ownership group with Tony Fernandez who of course owns Air Malaysia.

It was a sort of a relatively kind of backseat partner for the first few years but in 2016 became

co-chairman with Tony Fernandez and did that role for a couple of years before stepping

back a bit their partner Amir Batia of the Mital family, another very wealthy, powerful family, Indian family based also here in the UK is chairman now.

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